The Cisco® MDS 9700 48-Port 32-Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module (Figure 1) delivers predictable performance, scalability, and innovative features to support private and virtualized data centers. With industry-leading 768 line-rate 32-Gbps Fibre Channel ports per director, the 32-Gbps 48-port Fibre Channel switching module meets the high-performance needs for flash-memory and Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) over Fibre Channel workloads. It offers innovative services including virtual machine awareness, on-board Fibre Channel analytics engine, E-port and F-port diagnostics, integrated VSANs, Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR), and port channels. It delivers full-duplex aggregate performance of 1536 Gbps, making it well suited for high-speed 32-Gbps storage subsystems, 32-Gbps Inter-Switch Links (ISLs), high-performance virtualized servers, and all-flash and NVMe arrays. More information: Operational conditions | Operating temperature (T-T) | 0 - 40 °C |  | Storage temperature (T-T) | -40 - 70 °C | | Operating relative humidity (H-H) | 10 - 90 % | | Storage relative humidity (H-H) | 10 - 95 % | | Operating altitude | -60 - 200 m | Data transmission | Data transfer rate | 32 Gbit/s | Management features | Quality of Service (QoS) support | Yes | | Management platform | SSHv2, SNMPv3, SFTP | | Access Control List (ACL) | Yes | | Security algorithms | AES, SNMP, SSH-2 | Weight & dimensions | Width | 403.9 mm | | Depth | 553.7 mm | | Height | 44 mm | | Weight | 7940 g | Ports & interfaces | Fiber ports quantity | 48 |
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